The avalanche happened at around 7,400 metres, rescuers said

Image provided by Simrik Air shows rescuers assisting a foreigner who was injured following an avalance at the Mount Manaslu base camp in Gorkha Districtst on September 23. Rescuers have scaled down a search for two French climbers and a Canadian missing in a Nepal avalanche which killed at least nine people attempting to scale one of the world's highest peaks.

Nepal avalanche kills climbers

•September 24, 2012

An avalanche hit a team of climbers on a high Himalayan peak in Nepal on